At the Platino Ibero-American Film Awards, the film Argentina, 1985, directed by Santiago Mitre, won five of the 14 awards for which it was nominated, including Best Film, Best Actor (Ricardo Darín), Best Screenplay (Santiago Mitre and Mariano Llinás), Best Art Direction (Micaela Saiegh), and the award for Film and Education in Values.
As Bestas, Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s rural thriller, received four awards, including Best Direction, Best Supporting Actor (Luis Zahera), Best Editing, and Best Sound. In the new Best Ibero-American Fiction Comedy category, the Official Competition film, a Spanish-Argentine co-production directed by Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn and starring Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, and Oscar Martínez, was the winner.
In the TV series category, the Colombian-Chilean production Noticia de un secuestro, the TV adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s book of the same name directed by Andrés Wood and Julio Jorquera, won four of the six awards it was up for, including Best Ibero-American Miniseries or Cinematographic Teleseries, Creator of Miniseries or Cinematographic Teleseries (Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García), Best Female Performance in Miniseries or Teleseries (Cristina Umaña) and Best Female Performance in Supporting Miniseries or Teleseries (Majida Issa). Laia Costa received the Best Actress Award for Cinco Lobitos, and Ricardo Darín received the Best Actor Award. The Platinum Honorary Award was presented to Benicio del Toro for his career.